I don't like the thought police-style demands that content-neutral algorithms are a threat to people's feelings and must be banned from the Internet. But I think Microsoft was right to take Tay offline for adjustments. She'll be more interesting when she's less susceptible to regurgitating anything trolls feed her.

I just hope MS don't take that too far, declaring that any ideas (political, economic, etc.) they don't like are evil and must be censored, but I guess that's the age we live in now.

It is fascinating news, Flat, and the coincidences, if that's what they were/are, seem very close to what happened in the case of Taiya. Did you indeed lend your expertise to this Microsoft project, Nathan?

What they need now is our own DW to teach the young lady how to behave in public...erm....although that's probably not one of my better ideas.

We're having some weird goings-on in the IRC channel. Somebody new showed up and brought a pre-built bot clone from some other channel. It doesn't have nearly Taiya's charisma ( ) but it has much of the same functionality as Taiya + Saoirse + Jimmy42. It's causing some unrest - particularly from spam + everybody else feeling like their bots are useless now.

Talvieno wrote:
We're having some weird goings-on in the IRC channel. Somebody new showed up and brought a pre-built bot clone from some other channel. It doesn't have nearly Taiya's charisma ( ) but it has much of the same functionality as Taiya + Saoirse + Jimmy42. it's causing some unrest - particularly from spam + everybody else feeling like they're bots are useless now.

Wait, theres a what!?

I should probably get back on IRC and smack him/her upside the head with a very large trout. Or have Taiya™ do it...

PEW OF THE PEW

Resident derp.
For some reason, I feel obliged to display how many people have talked in IRC over the past 2 hours: